Eric R. Polins

Eric R. Polins is the Managing Partner and Chief Creative Officer of HCP Associates, where he has helped guide the firm’s strategic growth and creative vision for more than two decades. For more than 30 years, he has advised Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private businesses on strategic communications, public relations, crisis communications, branding, and integrated marketing.

His experience spans information technology, defense and military initiatives, government, maritime, tourism and hospitality, aviation, environmental stewardship, healthcare, infrastructure, higher education, manufacturing, and economic development.

During the formative years of the commercial Internet, Polins began his career as a web developer, graphic artist, Flash animator, and technology writer, helping pioneer digital marketing long before web development and e-commerce became industry standards.

Today, he continues to blend strategy, storytelling, and emerging technology to help organizations solve complex communications challenges.

He lives in Tampa Heights with his wife, Maria, their sons, Zane and Lacher, and their rescued dogs, Chuck “Roast,” a Newfoundland, and Angus, a Great Pyrenees mix.